UUCP News June

2020

Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse

PO Box 9342 420 E. 2nd Street, Moscow, ID 83843 Issue Date: June 1, 2020 Volume #71, Issue 6 Issued Monthly

In This Issue

June Sunday Services ................. 1

Month of Sundays: LAMI ......... 1

A Plea for Our Month of Sundays Program

Minister’s Pages: Minister’s Mus-ings .......................................... 2

UUCP Staff Information ............. 2

June Events ................................. 2

2020 UUCP Board ...................... 2

Minister’s Pages: Church Chat .. 3

UUCP Open Mic Night! ............. 3

Communication and Connection 4

Green Sanctuary Plans Summer Solstice Service ....................... 4

In the Family ............................... 5

Wholly Crones ............................ 5

Moscow-Pullman Meditation Group ...................................... 5

Update from the Capital Cam-paign Finance & Building Com-mittees ..................................... 6

Environmental Task Force .......... 7

From the UUCP Board ............... 7

Religious Exploration Information ................................................. 8

Grief Support Groups ................. 8

Mah Jonng Party ......................... 8

Living the 7th Principle .............. 9

PPQ News ................................... 9

Chalice Lighter Program ............. 9

UUCP Mail/Email Information 10

Sunday Services — June 2020 All of our services in June will be online, via Zoom.

June 7, 10:00 am Roots and Wings Service Leader: Rev. Dr . Elizabeth Stevens What helps us stay grounded and centered? What gives us the courage to take flight? June 14, 10:00 am Juneteenth Service Leader: Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Stevens 155 years after the end of slavery in the United States, we are still struggling to address systemic injustice. In these times, how do we hear and answer the call to collective liberation? June 21, 10:00 am This Wild and Precious Life Service Leader: Rev. Dr . Elizabeth Stevens A service celebrating the Summer Solstice in poetry, music, and memories. June 28 General Assembly Worship with a few thousand UU friends! Technical details to follow.

A Plea for Our Month of Sundays Program We have been lucky to be able to meet virtually in this era of self-quarantine and social isolation. I want to re-

mind you of our mission to minister to the needs of people in our community who are struggling in these times be-cause of loss of income, food insufficiency because of loss of school lunches and breakfasts, loss of social services, illness and other things we can’t even imagine. As part of our mission to be of help, we collect money every Sunday and give it to local agencies who work to meet these needs. Since we do not have a collection in our virtual services, we need to help by sending checks and cash to the church office to support our Month of Sundays program. Please indicate on your check or cash envelope that it is to go to the Month of Sundays program. Thank you for caring.

—Mary Jo Hamilton

Latah Mental Health was incorporated in April of 1977 by a group of family members with concerns for persons with mental illnesses. Now named Latah Al-liance on Mental Illness (LAMI), their mission is to provide individuals with se-vere and persistent mental illness a safe housing opportunity, enhance their op-portunity for community connections, and to aid in reaching their full potential by living within and participating in a family-like environment.

The Alliance House is located in Moscow and provides a supported living environment for up to six individual adults with severe and persistent mental ill-ness who would otherwise have inadequate or no housing. LAMI supports devel-opment of independent living skills for individuals with persistent mental illness by offering a semi structured home-like environment, advocating for the rights of and services to individuals with mental illness, and educating the community re-garding mental illness. Their goal is to provide a peer support group for individu-als with severe and persistent mental illness and their family members, reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, and encourage help seeking behaviors.

Month of Sundays—LAMI/Alliance House

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Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How

you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go. ―

Katharine Weber I learned a new word the other day. It’s Yiddish:

“Oysgezoomt,” meaning “all zoomed out.” The initial excitement has worn off. I am tired of Zoom. And I need to acknowledge: I am grieving. I miss you. I miss seeing people in person.

I am sad that I won’t see my son, who is graduat-ing from college this year, walk across the stage to re-ceive his diploma. No big celebration. No family fly-ing in to visit.

General Assembly, the annual conference where I get to see distant friends and colleagues, will happen entirely online. The college reunion? Cancelled.

I know I am not the only one. Each and every per-son is navigating a series of losses right now, both big and small. Grandparents who can’t see their grandchil-dren. Planned trips that are completely off the table. Cherished traditions and beloved activities that simply aren’t available to us right now.

The way loss works is that each new loss triggers feelings around all related, prior losses. We even get to grieve in advance. I am an expert in anticipatory grief…and you know what? It’s a lot.

So please believe me when I say: it’s okay if you are sometimes not okay. There are days when it’s all just too much to manage. I am not a fan of relentless ‘positivity;’ we shouldn’t need to sacrifice huge chunks of who we are and what we feel. Can we hold wholeness as a goal instead? What about self-compassion?

Or even just surviving? One of the things I say to grieving families moving through the most challeng-ing of losses is that there are no rules beyond take care of each other, and keep breathing. Whatever it takes to get through, an’ it harm none (including yourself), is just fine.

Remember that you aren’t alone. You can lean on me. We can lean on each other. But also remember, in the words of the song, that “no one can meet those of your needs that you don’t let show.” Let’s be honest with each other about the hard parts. That way, we can give and receive the support and care we need.

We can also share strategies for surviving and thriving. We can share the fruits of our (boredom-inspired) creativity. We can share love and laughter and goodness.

It’s not hugs. Or the exquisite pleasure of a shared meal (which, I swear, I will never take for granted again). But it is enough.

I love you. Hang in there.

Minister’s Pages

Minister’s Musings: June 2020

June Events

Please assume that all in-person events have been cancelled, until further notice.

Sunday services are at 10:00, via Zoom. There is information about using Zoom on the front page of this newsletter, and also on the web site at pa-louseuu.org.

Many groups are meeting online via Zoom or other alternate meeting methods. Please contact lead-ers/organizers to check the status of any group or ac-tivity.

UUCP Staff Information

Rev. Elizabeth Stevens, Minister Office hours by appointment—to make an appoint-ment, follow this link: calendly.com/revehstevens Zoom Room #662-139-0963 Ginger Yoder, Director of Lifespan Religious Exploration Phone: 208-882-4328 Email: uucp-dre@moscow.com Office Hours by appointment.

Summer Stevens, Administrative Secretary Phone: 208-882-4328 Email: uuchurch@moscow.com Office Hours: Monday & Friday 10:00-3:00

Tuesday & Thursday 2:00-4:00

Paul Thompson, Music Director pthompson@uidaho.edu

2020 UUCP Board Rich Alldredge, President Fran Rodriguez, Vice President Ellery Blood, Recording Secretary Judy LaLonde, Treasurer (Ex-Officio) Marcus Smith Karen Jennings Margaret Dibble Duane DeTemple Dan Schmidt Lynna Stewart

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It’s likely you’ve read the guidance from UUA headquarters that we plan to continue virtual worship through May of 2021. If you are like me, even if some part of you knew it was coming, it still felt like getting a bucket of ice water dumped over your head. I choose to interpret the recommendation as meaning we should shift out of emergency mode and work on dis-cerning a sustainable way forward.

Here’s what I understand about managing the risk of infection:

The six foot rule doesn’t just require we stay six feet apart. One epidemiologist, in talking about gathering outdoors, recommended drawing circles with six-foot diameters, with six feet between them…not center to center, but edge to edge. She recommended chalk circles in a parking lot or on a hard floor.

Masks need to cover our noses as well as our mouths. Masks are better than shields (like the ones they have in the pharmacy). Shields are better than nothing.

Outside is better than inside. Air circulates in-doors, and spreads the virus.

Short periods of time are better than extended ones. This has to do with viral load; if we are just seeing each other in passing, the risk of transmis-sion is relatively low (though not non-existent). If we stop and talk, the risk goes up quickly.

The majority of people who can pass along the virus are either asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. (This scares me more than just about anything else. I’m way more afraid of unknowingly infect-ing someone than I am of getting sick myself.)

Singing, speaking loudly, or repeating things in

unison all increase the risk of transmission. And of course, we all need to wash our hands fre-

quently and refrain from touching our faces.

Add it all up, and it’s clear that it would be in-credibly risky to worship as we are accustomed, all together, in our beautiful and beloved sanctuary.

I don’t think that means we can’t be responsive to local realities. We have an excellent team of health professionals who can help us evaluate how and when to gather, in smaller groups, while minimizing the risk. We can’t eliminate all risk, though, and that means that people have to determine for themselves whether they feel comfortable participating in any fu-ture in-person events.

Our virtual options are great, and we are serving a lot of people well (including some who weren’t active in our community before quarantine). However, there are people for whom online just doesn’t work, or doesn’t work well enough. By the same token, there will be people for whom the risk is too great to con-sider any in-person options. So for any in-person gath-ering, consideration should be given to how to include those who need to remain in isolation.

Accessibility is at the heart of the conversation. If you need something, please call. Ask. We don’t want to leave anyone behind.

Let’s all agree to keep our knees soft. As we plan limited ways of being together in person, and do all we can to minimize the risk, we need to be prepared to walk it back and cancel if there’s an increase in cases locally. There’s room for creativity and exploration and innovation. Think of it as learning new ways to be together, rather than staying apart for that whole time.

Minister’s Pages

Church Chat: So when do we get to see each other in person again?

UUCP OPEN MIC NIGHT! Friday, June 12, 5:00pm, in Paul's Zoom Room

https://palouseuu-org.zoom.us/j/9224633548

Meeting ID: 922 463 3548

Join us for our first virtual open mic night! Performances can be pre-recorded or live. For a pre-recorded submission, please send your video or a link to it. For live performance, please

email name(s) of performers, title of piece, composer, and approx. duration. Submissions and ques-tions should be directed to Paul Thompson at tenor114@gmail.com.

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Typically, this column takes the month of July off. Given the radical changes occurring these days from the virus and economic, even political rami-fications at levels near and far, it would indeed require a crystal ball to anticipate what things will look like in the August newsletter. Anything specifically said now in mid-May when this is due could feel like a non sequitur, what with COVID-19 turning things upside down, sidewise, and distressingly astray. It appears we are in uncharted territory.

We strain mightily to sort out what to do to out-wit a virus that is witless and cares not a whit about the devastation it causes. It’s a runaway bug that hit and misses and concentrates in a swarm where our daily defense boils down to a thin piece of cloth and 6 feet of distance. Tests, treatments, getting ahead of the thing feels like a house of mirrors inside a labyrinth—a couple wrong turns distorts and can unravel our at-tempt to get through. Here in May, many discussions stumble to point where we’re left with an unfinished thought of “I just don’t know ...”

What’s the new normal? What passes for normal in mid-summer might morph into something un-thought-of by August or winter. This thing is big; we struggle to take in its full scope. But maybe there’s a valuable insight in that: climate change is big too and so is the inequity between social classes or the diver-sity of global and intimate cultures. Everything has come to a nexus in what is a common denominator: the air we breathe between each other. Whether it’s full of smog or sky-blue birdsong, whether or not it’s

carrying the virus, it’s not just inanimate stuff we blandly call air out there. We see now the undeniable connectivity in multiple aspects exchanged between passer-by’s and daily companions. Air got very personal. If the world is to truly change, massive-ly, as a global community between na-tions and planetary systems with all its

inherent organics, it needs a paradigm shift. Because of this pandemic, we may have come up against something that could take us all into that shift. Norm won’t get us there. Walking eggshells around the problem won’t make due for too long. We need a new egg. Interdependently, we need to shape living into something we’ve yet to fully imagine and fully invest our strengths into. All this abysmal quandary that feels like quicksand sinking us with each step or pause, it just might be a precursor to a new, more united way of being at much deeper levels in a world-wide village.

A voice of solidarity has arisen, proclaiming that “we are all in this together.” In many shining mo-ments, we’ve come together in a common front of compassion, innovation, and determination. If a big-ger We really gets that, for real, we’ll overcome much more than just COVID-19. Like this quotation stum-bled upon from somewhere says: “No horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.” And on a sphere, every point becomes a horizon flowing across the Earth, indivisible. Keep moving forward, and eventually, together we come into the light.

—Victoria Seever

Communication and Connection

Green Sanctuary Committee Plans Summer Solstice Service The Green Sanctuary Committee will host a Summer Solstice Ser-

vice Saturday June 20 from 4:30 to 7:00 pm in the backyard of Borg Hendrickson and Lin Laughy, 1820 Orchard Ave, Moscow. We will have a Solstice Observance at 5:00pm followed by a social time.

The gathering has been approved by UUCP’s Health and Safety Committee. Lin and Borg have 14 chairs which will be well sanitized and spread out 6 feet apart so proper Social Distancing can be observed. Participants may also bring their own chairs and should wear masks. We will set up a hand washing station. There will not be a potluck, but social units may bring their own food and drink, beer and wine are ok.

Should the incidence of CoVid 19 in our area increase, the event will be cancelled. The Health and Safety Committee will determine when the date gets closer, if the event can proceed.

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In the Family Congratulations to: Julia Parker ’s Simone, who graduated from Boston Conservatory; Scott Camp-bell, who has successfully finished another semester & is now halfway through graduate program; RJ Hart, who has graduated with Masters in Science in Library Science from the University of North Texas; the Magnussons who, after losing their home in fire, are now in their new home; Leanne Parker on the birth of her great niece, Emma Joanne; Duane and Janet DeTemple’s daughter, Jill DeTemple, a member of the faculty of the religious studies department at Southern Methodist University, who has just learned that she has been promoted to the rank of full professor; and the Uries, who are celebrat-ing 13 years as family. Please hold in your thoughts: Lysa Salsbury’s Aunt, Vania Rezen, who has been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

Condolences to: Gene and Paula Siple on the death of Paula’s mother, Greta Laura Beatrice Winter, who passed away April 26 at age 91; the Poplawsky/Prorak family on the loss of Panda, who gave them 15 years of canine energy, love and joy; Elisabeth Berlinger on the sudden and unexpected death of her friend Sandy Mauchley; and Eric Nilsson on the death of his mother, Shirley Nilsson.

Please notify the office, uuchurch@moscow.com or 882-4328, of any family news to be included here.

The UUCP's Moscow/Pullman Meditation Group is currently using alternative meeting meth-ods—contact Cynthia Pierce-Garnett at moscowpullmanmindfullness@gmail.com !

You can learn more about us at nwmindfulness.wordpress.com or on Facebook at moscow / pullman meditation group. For questions, email Cynthia Pierce-Garnett, group facilitator, at moscowpull-manmindfulness@gmail.com Joining a meditation group can motivate you to maintain a consistent practice!

Moscow-Pullman Meditation Group

Wholly Crones We will meet on Zoom in June—for the Zoom room number and for any questions or further information contact Mary Jo Hamilton.

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May 20, 2020

Update from the Capital Campaign Finance and Building Committees The construction plans for the addition and remodel are moving ahead. Many architectural changes previously suggested by congregation members have been made. The Building Committee met with the architect Laurence Rose May 13 and we are going through another round of revisions. We expect to receive a revised draft of the plans on June 8. After committee review of these plans, the architectural design team will begin the final phase of construction plans. The most recent architectural plans are mounted on posters in the church foyer. You are free to vis-it and look at them during Summer’s office hours, Monday & Friday, 10-3, Tuesday & Thursday 2-4. Please wear masks if you come to visit. There will be a limited number of printed copies available to take home. A “Geotechnical Evaluation” of the church property will be conducted very soon. A backhoe will dig pits at two sites -- one in the front lawn and one to the west of the Yellow House -- to test the sub-surface soil conditions as necessary to determine structural design parameters. The sites will be backfilled but will remain disturbed until excavation and construction begins late this year or next year. Capital Campaign Finance Update: The original cost estimate for the building addition was $1.68 million, and pledges are presently within 2% of the total needed. In addition, approximately two doz-en individuals have indicated that they still intend to pledge, or that in the future they may be able to increase their pledge. So we are optimistic about meeting this basic cost estimate. We encourage anyone who has not yet submitted their pledge to do so. Donations thus far have been strong. A total of $753,600 has been donated and expenditures are $21,650. Before excavation and construction can begin the following items must be finished*

Finalize architectural plans (late July or early August) Finalize legal agreement with county on shared use of alleyways and parking. Obtain permits from the city Finalize plans for the Yellow House: either removal following sale, or salvage and demolition.

Demolition is far more likely. We need to plan for removal and storage of contents of the Yellow House. The Yellow House will not be disposed of until we have a contract for ex-cavation and construction.

Remove and store pavers that are used in the current patio, to be re-used. Rescue native plants if those beds must be demolished (likely).

*Numbers 1-3 must be completed before we request bids from contractors, so the earliest the re-quest for bids might go out is in July. If bids fall within our pledged funding levels, then excavation and items 4-6 can proceed. The timeline: is difficult to predict, but it seems likely that the earliest we would begin excavation is this fall. Agreement with County mentioned above: The county owns the McConnell Mansion and we are close to finalizing a legal agreement for shared use of N-S and E-W alleyways, as well as parking between the McConnell Mansion and new parking places on the west side of the new addition. Questions and comments can be directed to Al Poplawsky, alpopsky@gmail.com, chair, or other members of the Building Committee: Mary DuPree, Mary Jo and Joel Hamilton, Steve Flint, Archie George, John Pool Bill Webb, and Pat Fuerst.

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A quote attributed to Confucius can be applied to our group as well, "It does not mat-ter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." The COVID 19 has definitely slowed us down but we're not stopping. We've shared a number of presentations with our members via Zoom including Audubon's "Enjoying and Helping Birds at Home" and "Defund Climate Destruction" offered by the Sierra Club. This latter talk includes all the banks and finan-cial institutions financing the fossil fuel industry.

We have joined several local groups: the Moscow Bee City project connects very well with the Pollinator Summit we sponsored using our Dime In time Funds. We've also been invited to participate in the Pullman 2040 Environmental Task Force that is studying the local watershed. We plan to continue working with the Sierra Club's RF100 on motivating our local commu-nity to adopt clean energy and we also shared a Pebble Mine update with our members.

We are still members of the Palouse Clearwater Food Coalition Roundtable and will be part of the An-nual Food Summit. We have also been encouraged by Aly Tharp from the UU Ministry of the Earth to plan a banner for the parade at the Virtual General Assembly in June. We hope to join forces once again with the

local folks involved with studying 5G. We shared three films with our members via

Zoom: "Paradise", the story of the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act; "Chehalis:

A Watershed Moment" which connects the Chelalis River in Washington with our dam breaching hopes; and "Racing Extinction" which we proposed as a viewing to honor Endangered Species Day. Since we own this DVD, we might be able to show it at the Kenworthy in the future.

An additional Zoom presentation for ESD was "Wolves in the West" produced by Amaroq Weiss from the Center for Biological Diversity. Pat Rathmann met Ms. Weiss last year at the Speak for the Wolves event in Portland and she will be available to visit Moscow for a live presentation in the future.

Kobe Bryant motivated his team members with "The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win." In spite of working under the chal-lenges of COVID 19, we are determined not to lose this very important race for the environment. Please join us for our next meeting in June. If Pat Rathmann can figure out how to set us up for Zoom, we'll be joining the 20th Century with a tech meeting.

—Pat Rathmann

UUCP Environmental Task Force June 2020 Report

From the UUCP Board I naively agreed to serve on the Board 1.5 years ago, thinking that is was time to fit this into my life and

give back to this wonderful community. It has been quite an adventure between the building project and now during the C0VID-19 pandemic as we all are experiencing unprecedented times.

I think the first year was mainly spent getting myself oriented. However, towards the end of that year, I was thrust into the deep end by becoming one of the many stewards in the Capital Campaign, and I thoroughly enjoyed each of my meetings with members. The fact that we reached our goal speaks to me of the deep level of commitment to our beloved community and what it means for so many to be a part of it.

Then we faced the challenge in March of quickly going to an online format for our worship services. It really shows how nimble and adaptable Rev. Elizabeth, Ginger, Paul, Sam, and Veronica have been in pulling this off. This is no small task to do, and it required learning new skills very quickly and continually making adjustments and refinements from week to week. From my stand-point, each service gets better and better.

We are now able to offer worship services to people beyond the Palouse, including members who have moved away, children from our congregation who are now young adults and living else-where, people from the community who are joining us for the first time, and friends and family members who live out of the area. I am very proud to be part of an organization that has risen to the occasion to offer spiritual support and sustenance to its members, friends, and newcomers during such a difficult time. Never before have I felt the depth of the presence and importance of our commu-nity, and I am so very thankful for it.

—Karen Jennings

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Mah Jongg Party As you probably have guessed, no Mah Jongg

until the Isolate-at-Home policy is rescinded, which may be a while. And, it’s hard to play Mah Jongg over Zoom. This is a good time for you all to teach your co-quarantining family and room-mates how to play Mah Jongg. I hope we can meet in person to play soon.

—Mary Jo Hamilton

Religious Exploration Information This Month in Religious Exploration : June 2020

Summer in Religious Exploration Our summer programing begins June 8th here in vir-tual church world. This means we will have a change in zoom schedules and also some exciting virtual UU camps! Email Ginger Yoder at lebeauvirginia@gmail.com for zoom room login in-formation

Child and Youth Summer Zoom Schedule UU Kids Chats – Wednesdays at 10 am Middle School Hangout – Wednesdays 2 pm Boise UU Kids Hangout – Fridays at 2 pm Boise UU Youth Hangout – Fridays 3 pm

Idaho UU Online Summer Camps

In collaboration with Boise UU we will be offering two week long online summer camps for your fami-ly! Each day will be about 30-45 min of either a zoom call or an online video you can access from the comfort of your home. We realize kids (and grownups!) are getting burnt out on zoom so we are going to offer hybrid sessions. More information will be available but mark your calendars for June 22-26 and August 10-14. We will provide a delivery of a package with all the materials for the week in-cluded, so we will need pre-registration by email-ing Ginger one week beforehand. Sunday Religious Exploration Programing We will continue to offer Yellow House Zoom Room programing for all ages during our Sunday service time. Focusing on connection and the theme of the week we will engage in a story, discussion and activity each week. Children will need to log onto the YH zoom room on a separate device, we have several for loan if needed!!

Zoom Dinner Group 2nd 3rd 4th Wednesdays 6-7 pm

Bring your dinner, your kids, you crafts, anything you want and be in the company of others. We will include a reading for reflection and the rest of the time will be spent visiting and chatting. Kids, pets, the whole family welcome. Yellow House Zoom Room

Pullman Small Group Wed June 3 6-7 pm

Join us in the YH zoom room for our small group ministry and stay connected during this time. We will have a reading, discussion and sharing time each month. Yellow House Zoom Room.

Director of Family Ministries, Ginger Yoder, Online Office Hours By appointment only

Grief Support Groups Grief comes to everyone at some point in life. If

you are grieving the loss of a loved one (two or four legged), through death, divorce, illness, moving away, the loss of a job, a home, or community, you are welcome to join our Grief group, which meets on the first Monday of the month (June 1) from 6-7:30. Facilitated by the Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Stevens and Elisabeth Berlinger

Additionally, because of the epidemic, we are all dealing with anticipatory grief. We don't know what is coming, but many of us are anxious and afraid, for ourselves or our loved ones. It can be healthy and helpful to work through these feelings together, to prepare our hearts and spirits. A second grief group, focusing on our feelings related to the epidemic, will meet on the third Monday of the month (June 15) from 6-7:30. Both groups meet on Zoom:

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The Chalice Lighter Program The Chalice Lighter Program assists the growth of new and existing Unitarian Universalist member con-

gregations in the Pacific Northwest with grants to provide vital capabilities and infrastructure. Grants are fund-ed exclusively through contributions from Unitarian Universalists who participate as Chalice Lighters.

Chalice Lighter grants are intended to help congregations grow by: securing, improving or furnishing a building reaching out to the community to attract new members initiating a new congregation funding any other creative program to facilitate growth To be eligible for a grant, at least 30% of the members must be enrolled as Chal-

ice Lighter donors. Our own UUCP has received funds in the past for renovating the Yellow House and the church basement. The Chalice Lighter Program will issue no more than three calls for donations per year & Chalice Lighter donors are asked to donate at least $20 per call. (You may also simply contribute $60 at the start of the year.)

You can learn more about the program under the district web site (pnwduua.org) or contact Chuck Harris, 208-310-3469 or ccharrisjr@hotmail.com.

Living the 7th UU Principle — The World You Want Is Up to You Al Poplawsky Proposes That Moscow Is Ready for Clean Energy

MOSCOW - READY FOR 100% CLEAN ENERGY! The 2018 National climate assessment as well as the International Panel on Cli-

mate Change have concluded; if we are to have a good chance of limiting worldwide warming to 1.5C and avoid the worst effects of climate change, human civilization must reduce its output of greenhouse gases 45% by 2030 and completely by 2050

Roughly one third of U.S. greenhouse gas production comes from electrical gen-eration, one third from the transportation sector, and the rest from everything else we do (including building climate control). Thus if we continue to clean up our electrical generation, and at the same time electrify our transportation and building climate con-trol systems, we will be well on our way to 100% clean energy. As our electrical generation gets cleaner, the other sectors will get cleaner also!

Currently about 44% of Moscow’s electricity comes from dirty fossil fuels despite the fact that clean, sus-tainable energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are now competitive in cost, or even less expen-sive to develop compared to greenhouse gas-polluting fossil fuels. However the good news is that our electri-cal provider, Avista has a goal to provide 100% clean electricity by 2045!

Worldwide climate disasters are occurring at increasing frequencies, and more intense and frequent forest fires, floods and summer heat waves are threatening the quality of life here in Moscow also. However, not only has significant action to address climate change not occurred at the federal level, but the U.S. government executive branch is taking actions that will exacerbate climate change.

The Sierra Club's RF100 program helps cities and municipalities commit to and achieve 100% clean ener-gy goals. Almost 1/3 of the U.S. population now lives in cities, other municipalities, or states which have committed to 100% clean renewable energy, and six U.S. cities have already achieved these goals.

The City of Moscow will achieve its previous goal of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas pollutants by 2020, and we need to encourage the city to commit to a new goal of 100% clean energy by 2045! Sign the pe-tition <https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/ready-for-100-clean-energy-in-moscow-idaho> and contact us to learn more about this effort. Al Poplawsky <alpopsky@gmail.com>

—Al Poplawsky

We are meeting regularly via Zoom—contact Mary Jo Hamilton for more information.

PPQ News

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